It wouldn't be the first time that a Legionnaire was guilty of criminal behavior or certain activities that others might find barbaric, before joining the team. None of them were guilty of something that severe, but gang leaders are gang leaders and black ops work is black ops work.

[Invisible Kid hadn't exactly laid his soul bare, even after they'd started dating in secret, but over the years, Brainy had gleaned a bit about the nature of some of the work he'd done. He hadn't been an assassin but he also hadn't questioned who was inside a building or do while blowing them up on orders to cover his tracks.]

We're also wholly aware of how certain external forces can damage ones mental health and drive them towards such heinous actions. [His voice goes a little soft as he finally shows a bit of emotion.] We lost a Legionnaire that way.

An extraordinarily kind and gentle one, at that.

There are external forces that can drive even the kindest people to places you'd never expect, until they've completely lost whoever they were and whoever they might otherwise have become without those forces influencing them.

[He raises his eyebrows slightly.]

Whether someone can come back from that. Well. That is the question --

[A pause.]

And the hope.

[Which is what they're supposed to give people, and something they're supposed to hold onto.]

Your opinion has changed. Already. After talking to him. I can tell.

You believe it, don't you. That he hopes to change. Or you want to.